Argentina

• Sunday, June 19th 2011 - 23:10 UTC

  Clarin family yields to growing pressure from Argentine government

  

  The adopted children of the influential Argentine media conglomerate ‘Clarin’ have agreed to have their blood drawn for DNA analysis. Blood samples from siblings Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera will be checked at Argentina’s National Genetic Data Bank (BNDG).

• Sunday, June 19th 2011 - 22:37 UTC

  Argentine Coast Guard seizes 444 kilos of cocaine en route to Uruguay sea resort

  

  Argentina’s Coast Guard reported that a total of 444 kilos of cocaine were seized on Saturday, after being found on a sailing boat manned by a Spanish crew, close to the main port of the Olivos. The vessel was heading for Piriápolis, in neighbouring Uruguay.

• Sunday, June 19th 2011 - 09:47 UTC

  Argentina: “Mothers on the March Again in Argentina—Into Scandal”

  

  The Wall Street Journal in an article credited to Matt Moffett, tells the story of how the respected human rights group, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and close ally of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner are embroiled in a controversy over misused funds.

• Friday, June 17th 2011 - 17:02 UTC

  “Corruption in Argentina; the mother of all scandals” by The Economist

  

  Under the heading of “Corruption in Argentina: the mother of all scandals?”, The Economist edition of this week has an article on the controversy surrounding the once-revered human rights group Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

• Friday, June 17th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  CFK describes PM Cameron’s Falklands’ statement as “mediocre and almost stupid”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, described UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s emphatic refusal to discuss Falklands/Malvinas Islands’ sovereignty as “mediocre and almost stupid” and promised to continue indefatigably with the claim in all world forums.

• Friday, June 17th 2011 - 06:20 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez on the campaign trail, expected to announce re-election bid next week

  

  In spite of the volcanic ash cloud that is still hovering over parts of Argentina, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner resumed a round of visits to provinces scheduled to hold elections in the next two weeks and in anticipation of what is considered her decision to bid for re-election next October.

• Friday, June 17th 2011 - 05:40 UTC

  Bonafini says she “has nothing to hide” and send Schoklenders “to jail forever”

  

  The head of Argentina’s Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo organization, Hebe de Bonafini, minimized on Thursday the recent series of judicial raids performed on the organization’s headquarters and assured that “she has nothing to hide.”

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 23:18 UTC

  Argentina human rights group money spent on Ferraris, yachts and villas

  

  A major scandal has unfolded in Argentina involving one of the cherished and exploited banners of the two Kirchner administrations (Nestor and Cristina, 2003/2011): human rights policy and the organization of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 15:10 UTC

  Falklands: Argentina deplores PM Cameron’s “regrettable act of arrogance”

  

  The Argentine Government said it “deplores that, in a regrettable act of arrogance, the United Kingdom claims to have the authority to ‘put an end’ to the unresolved conflict regarding the Malvinas Islands sovereignty, a case that is currently being recognized by the United Nations.”

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 13:20 UTC

  Argentina about to have its first gay divorce: a lesbian couple

  

  Argentina is about to have its first gay divorce, not quite a year after a groundbreaking law legalized homosexual marriage.